A Fuzzy Goal-Programming Model for Optimization of Sustainable Supply Chain by Focusing on the Environmental and Economic Costs and Revenue: A Case Study

Subject Areas : Financial Mathematics

Mohammad Reza  Zamanian ¹ (Department of Management, College of Human Science, Saveh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saveh, Iran)
Ehsan  Sadeh ² (Department of Management, College of Human Science, Saveh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saveh, Iran)
Zeinolabedin  Amini Sabegh ³ (Department of Management, College of Human Science, Saveh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saveh, Iran)
Reza  Ehtesham Rasi ⁴ (Department of Industrial Management, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran)

Received: 2018-11-12 Accepted : 2019-01-23 Published : 2019-03-01

Keywords: Revenue, Fuzzy Goal Programming, Natural gas supply chain, Environmental cost, Economic cost,

Abstract :

Sustainable supply chain has become an integral part of the corporate strategy. In this paper, a real case study of the natural gas supply chain has been investigated. Using concepts related to natural gas industry and the relations among the compo-nents of gas and oil wells, refineries, storage tanks, dispatching, transmission and distribution network, a seven-level supply chain has been introduced and present-ed schematically. The aim of this paper is to optimize a case study using a fuzzy goal-programming multi-period model considering environmental and economic costs and revenue as fuzzy goals and maximize the total degree of satisfaction of goals as objective function. A small-sized problem was solved using GAMS 23.2.1 software and sensitivity analysis was conducted on its parameters. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that presents a fuzzy goal program-ming model for the optimization of sustainable natural gas supply chain by focus-ing on the environmental and economic costs and total revenue of gas products and the other main contribution of this research is focused to the developing of the mentioned model.

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